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Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation
Oxford:
Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford
(2018), 25 pp.
"Our key findings are: 1. We have found evidence of formally organized social media manipulation campaigns in 48 countries, up from 28 countries last year. In each country there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to manipulate public opinion domestically; 2. Much...
Community safety toolkit
Cape Town:
Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF); Gun Free South Africa (GFSA)
(2018), 234 pp.
"This guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around gun violence and community safety. Children’s Radio Foundation has partnered with Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) to build the capacity of youth to influence and shape beh...
Funding journalism, finding innovation: success stories and ideas for creative, sustainable partnerships
Philadelphia, Pa.:
Media Impact Funders; Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media
(2018), 19 pp.
"While this guide shows only a small sampling of how funders and publishers are working together to financially sustain the fourth estate, we hope that it nonetheless serves as a starting point for your own work by providing solid examples of groundbreaking funding efforts—ones that are both pione...
A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use
London:
GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
(2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r...
An introduction to funding journalism and media
Ariadne - European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights
(2018), 43 pp.
"Section 1 summarises the background to and rationale for philanthropic funding of the media, including from a social justice and human rights perspective. This should help Ariadne grantmakers who are not sure if and why they should support media directly to make an informed decision, or to help mak...
Africa peace journalism: a manual for media practitioners in East Africa
Rongo (KE):
Peace and Security (CMDPS) Democracy Center for Media Rongo University
(2017), xiv, 71 pp.
ISBN 978-9966-825-30-8
Other Editions: also published as "Peace Journalism in East Africa: A Manual for Media Practitioners". Routledge, 2020
"This publication is the outcome of the “East Africa Regional Peace Journalism Training Workshop” for journalists covering conflict and peacebuilding in East Africa. Organized by Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace, and Security (CMDPS) in partnership with the African Peacebu...
Mit spitzer Feder: Karikaturen zu zehn Themenfeldern
Politik und Unterricht, volume 43, issue 45019 (2017), pp. 1-55
"Sie ist witzig, ironisch, bissig. Sie versucht, mit wenigen Strichen Dinge auf den Punkt zu bringen. Sie ist oftmals einseitig und parteiisch, in aller Regel löst sie sowohl Zustimmung als auch Widerspruch aus. Sie kann (und will) Tabus brechen, indem sie oftmals stillschweigend praktizierte gesel...
Annual plan 2017
Amsterdam:
Free Press Unlimited
(2017), 23 pp.
"With the growing scope of work and the persistent debate and discussion about news and information, both outside and inside the Netherlands, Free Press Unlimited needs to reposition itself and perhaps redirect the course of the organisation. 2017 will therefore be an interesting and challenging yea...
Monitoring media pluralism in Europe: application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 in the European Union, Montenegro and Turkey
European University Institute; Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF)
(2017), 92 pp.
ISBN 978-92-9084-459-4
"The Monitor assesses the risks to media pluralism based on a set of twenty indicators covering a broad notion of media pluralism that encompasses political, cultural, geographical, structural and content related dimensions. All types of media are covered: public service, commercial, community media...
Environmental news in South America: conflict, crisis and contestation
London:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2017), xi, 168 pp., 28 illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-137-47499-5 (pdf); 978-1-137-47498-8 (print)
"Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, ...
China's media in the emerging world order
Buckingham:
University of Buckingham Press
(2017), 259 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-908684-34-9
Other Editions: 2nd ed. 2020
"China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already fo...
Media framing of democratisation conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: a content analysis
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media
(2017), 26 pp.
ISSN 2057-4002
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S...
Ukrainian media landscape - 2017
Kiev:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
(2017), 45 pp.
"The main points regarding the freedom of expression decrease in Ukraine include: the restriction of access to information channels (Russian books, TV channels, films, social networks, mail servers, etc.); persecution, in particular the detention and imprisonment of citizens expressing separatist vi...
If you want to understand how media work, produce your own media! A Cameroonian community radio as conveyer of critical media competences
In: Pathways to peace
Christiane Kayser; Flaubert Djateng (eds.)
Brot für die Welt; Civil Peace Service (CPS)
(2017), pp. 30-42
"... The CBS Radio 95.3 MHz in Buea with the support of the CPS Programme in Cameroon, developed a training curriculum for voluntary programme producers to enable local communities and individuals to produce new radio programmes and guide them in their learning-bydoing process and practical acquisit...
Comparing models of collaborative journalism
Montclair, NJ:
Center for Cooperative Media Montclair State University
(2017), 68 pp., bibliogr. p.65-68
"This report identifies and compares six models of collaborative journalism that span collaborations from the hyperlocal to the international levels. We provide examples of each model, and discuss common costs and benefits for each. Identifying and describing the different models of collaborative jo...
Media assistance: review of the recent literature and other donors’ approaches
iMedia Associates; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
(2017), 82 pp., abbrev. p.3, bibliogr. p.63-82
"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned iMedia Associates (iMedia) to conduct a Capitalisation Exercise (CapEx) of its media assistance, with the primary objective of examining its current programmes and bringing out lessons learned. As the second output of this CapE...
O Holocausto no cinema
Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, volume , issue 501 (2017), pp. 14-49
ISSN 1981-8769 (print); 1981-8793 (online)
Safe+Secure handbook
DOC Funders Network
(2017), 59 pp.
"Getting to the heart of stories by asking the really tough questions and going places where no one wants to go. That’s documentary at its best. This Safe+Secure Handbook has been designed to help filmmakers get there—and back—and get their stories into the public domain as safely as possible....
Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of peace research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
" ... To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jou...
Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen
Peripherie, volume 37, issue 1 (2017), pp. 52-75
CC BY-SA
"Seit März 2007 organisieren lokale und internationale Aktivist*innen in verschiedenen Teilen Afghanistans beinah täglich Aktivitäten mit den unterschiedlichen Techniken des Theaters der Unterdrückten (TdU) des Brasilianers Augusto Boal (1931-2009) sowie anderen emanzipatorischen Theatermethoden...
